The House That Spoke
Author: Zuni Chopra Publisher: Penguin Random House India About the book: Fourteen-year-old Zoon Razdan is witty, intelligent and deeply perceptive. She also has a deep connection with magic. She was born into it. The house that she lives in is fantastical—life thrums through its wooden walls—and she can talk to everything in it, from the […]
Rasha: Little Girl, Big Heart
Author: Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Translator: Arunava Sinha Publisher: Puffin About the book: The breathtaking story of a feisty young girl Fifteen-year-old Rasha is abandoned by her mother in a village with her aged and probably mad-grandmother. Uprooted from higher school and her friends back in cosmopolitan Dhaka, a disgruntled Rasha has to start life afresh […]
Like Smoke: A Collection
Author: Paro Anand Publisher: Puffin Books About the book: How often have you felt that you just can’t take it any more? Felt that nothing is worth the head ache, the heart ache? The good news – you are not alone. The bad news -you are not alone – for every teen carries the angst […]
What Maya Saw | NBA Honour
NBA 2018 Honour Book | Young Adult Author: Shabnam Minwalla Publisher: HarperCollins India About the book: Almost from the moment Maya steps into St Paul’s College, she is afraid. Everywhere she goes, she encounters questions and secrets. Not to mention the Shadows – a bunch of drop-dead gorgeous students who she realizes will do anything […]
Queen of Ice 🏆
Author: Devika Rangachari Publisher: Duckbill About the book: Despised by her father and bullied by his heir, Didda’s childhood is miserable and her future, bleak. When she is married off to the dissolute ruler of Kashmira, she must learn to hold her own in a court ridden with factions and conspiracies. But Didda is no […]
Year of the Weeds 🏆
Author: Siddhartha Sarma Publisher: Duckbill Books and Publications Pvt Ltd About the book: ‘Sometimes, Korok, it is best if the sorkar forgets you.’Korok lives in a small Gond village in western Odisha. His life is in the garden which he tends every day. Anchita lives in the house which has the garden and is an […]
When Morning Comes
Author: Arushi Raina Publisher:Tradewind Books About the book: Its 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, a South Asian girl working at her father’s shop; Jack, an Oxford-bound white student; and Thabo, a teen-gang member, or tsotsi. From […]
This is Me, Mayil
Author: Niveditha Subramaniam and Sowmya Rajendran Publisher: Tulika Publishers About the book: Fiercely fun, madly morose and prone to spontaneous combustion — this is Mayil Ganeshan at Not Yet Sixteen. Much like before. But edgier. Older and bolder, the unstoppable ‘Mayilwriter’ rants in rhyme, ponders in verse, and doodles in between. For every moment of […]
Pashmina
Author: Nidhi Chanani Publisher: Macmillan US About the book: A heartfelt young adult graphic novel about an Indian-American teen’s attempt to reconnect with her mother’s homeland through a magical pashmina shawl.Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most […]
Indira | NBA Honour
NBA 2019 Honour Book | Young Adult Author: Devapriya Roy Illustrator: Priya Kuriyan Publisher: Context About the book: In a government school classroom in Delhi, young Indira Thapa is set an unusual assignment by her favourite teacher: to write an essay around her name. Who was Indira Priyadarshini, the person after whom her grandfather named […]